Being text of a lecture delivered at the Nigerian School
of Internet Governance on the
9th day of July 2019
at NIRA Office in Lagos
Introduction
Data protection and privacy are almost alien to the Nigerian
society. Data subjects are, mostly, oblivious of their property
rights in data and Data collectors/administrators are numb to their
corresponding duty to protect and/or respect the privacy data
entrusted in their hands. Ultimately, there seems or seemed to be a
deafening complicit silence or absence of regulators in this
field.
Up until the emergence of negligible few civil societies which
recently made data privacy and protection their core concerns,
Nigerians have never really bordered about whatever happened to
their data so long their other economic/physical rights remained
undisturbed.
